Data Structures and Algorithms COMP9024 26T0

Results

Posted by Michael Thielscher Wednesday 11 February 2026, 03:13:13 PM.

Your mark is now available through cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~give/Student/sturec.php or from your CSE account using

9024 classrun 26T0 -sturec

The university has a policy to disallow any adjustments to near-misses of higher grades, and they utilise statistical methods to ensure compliance. In a large class like ours, it is inevitable that some of you will have missed a higher grade by just 1 mark. In such cases, I apologise for what is simply bad luck, but please note that the two long questions as well as your programs, in addition to auto-marking, were manually marked individually and using the same criteria for everyone, and then we are not allowed to make individual adjustments.

Congratulations to everyone who passed and achieved a good result in this course!

Lab location change for tomorrow

Posted by Michael Thielscher Wednesday 04 February 2026, 01:15:40 PM.

Please note that all labs will be in a different location tomorrow (Thursday 5 February, Week 5):

• Bongo ⇒ Brass Lab
• Lyre ⇒ Kora Lab
• Tabla ⇒ Sitar Lab

Please ensure that go to the right lab location at your usual time. All these labs are in the adjacent building K-J17, on level 3 (above the lecture theatre).

The reason is that there is a good chance of excruciating noise in K17 from the demolition of the second balcony during the day.

Mid-term test result

Posted by Michael Thielscher Thursday 29 January 2026, 01:00:39 PM.

Your mark for the midterm test is now available through cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~give/Student/sturec.php or from your CSE account using

9024 classrun 26T0 -sturec

You can also look at your auto-&manually marked answer to the programming question, again either by logging into cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~give/Student/sturec.php , or by using

9024 classrun 26T0 -collect midterm_q5

The average for question 5 was a bit lower than expected. I suspect that not having access to VS Code during the midterm made things harder for everyone. VS Code needs to be explicitly installed for each individual exam, and while I wanted it for ours as well, this was unfortunately not actioned this time. I only became aware of this too late, and then all I could do at the last minute was add the instruction on how to open an editor.

I will ensure that VS Code is available for the final exam.

Kudos to the following students for scoring 21 or higher given the level of difficulty of this midterm test:

Yu, Dian
Chen, Zehao
Guo, Jialin

Well done, and congratulations to everyone else who achieved a good result!